From Sly and the Family Stallone?
I would wager that back when we were all younger, the ending of the original Night of The Living Dead would be plenty disturbing.
For me, the ending of Kevin Smith’s Red State was rather disturbing. I can’t go into too much detail without ruining the whole movie.
Unexpectedly, this is also a description of the Trondheim Hammer Dance.
Mellish’s in Saving Private Ryan is an easy one but and although it was not the death scene, the head on a stick scene in Wolf Creek because their pose just before was so intimate. But the death scene that really disturbed me, and I know this will sound stupid, was Lylla, Teefs and Floor in Guardians of the Galaxy 3. I’m not sure why but it bothered me for days after I saw it. I think it was Floor yelling that they should go and Rocket froze.
No, it’s not silly. Guardians 3 was unexpectedly brutal. I think it qualifies.
Yes, I am much more horrified by the more subtle death scenes, in which you only see indirectly the person’s demise but you can still strongly infer their suffering.
More violently shown deaths tend to make me feel unreal, since I know that the death is all acting and special effects, and the actor is not really being killed in a horrible way. I am sure they research all of that, to portray as much brutal reality as is possible, but still…I know that the murdered actor was cleaned up and walked away after the scene, so I don’t become too upset…well, not often.
I friend of mine refuses to watch Guardians 3 because from what she heard about it she is sure it would trigger her. I finally watched it a few weeks ago by myself, and agreed that there is no way she should watch it. Hell, it set off a few of my triggers.
Yeah, I’ve never been particularly sensitive to animals in peril, but damn, that was rough. Anyone who is sensitive to that stuff should steer clear.
I do recommend the film, it was very well done, but I also have to add that caveat.
I agree, it was a great movie, very well done, and I’m never going to watch it again. I feel the same way about the Ian McKellan film, Mr. Holmes.
The police officer at the beginning of No Country for Old Men.
My choice is the death of Maddy in Twin Peaks. We find out who killed Laura and a minute later Maddy comes in to meet her fate. The sound effect of her screaming while gurgling blood was horrific as was Leland/Bob’s expressions.
Having an Alien climb out of your abdomen is right up there too.
Many of the deaths in Six Feet Under were creepy, but the one where the baby dies in his crib was the worst. Or maybe the guy getting cut in two by the elevator.
The scene in the original “Alien” where the creature explodes out of the guy’s abdomen screaming and then scurries away, and you it is there SOMEWHERE.
I’ll see your chest-burster scene, and raise you the birthing video from the Fallout TV show.
crosses Fallout off my list
I love Alien though. I think it’s one of the most perfect movies ever made.
Season 6, Episode 7 of Homicide: Life on the Street, “The Subway”. The entire episode is essentially a death scene. A man (Vincent D’Onofrio) is pinned between the train and the platform and the episode is devoted to how various characters deal with the fact that he’s effectively already dead, even though he is conscious and in no (significant) pain.
Yes, that was very upsetting. ER had a similar situation where a man had been exposed to a fatal amount of a poisonous gas, although he didn’t look or feel all that bad yet. They let him know he was about to be a goner. They only had a few hours to locate his family before he succumbed.
Old Yeller. I knew how it ended, but had never seen it. The principal where I taught showed it to the whole school–and was very upset that nobody told him how it ended! We all thought he knew!
Maybe he grew up like Pheobe did…
There was a movie called [Independence Day (1983)] (Independence Day (1983) - IMDb)
wherein Dianne Wiest, the sister of one of the 2 main characters, is an terribly abused spouse who can’t take it anymore. The look on her face when she purposely fills the house with gas and lights a match (iirc) right in the midst of it is shocking and horrible.
The scene in Better Call Saul where Nacho shoots himself before the Salamancas could. Classical tragedy. The scene where Howard Hamlin gets it was pretty awful, too.
That one really caught me by surprise because, by some trick of memory, I could have sworn I remembered Nacho also being in Breaking Bad. So I though he had unassailable plot armor in BCS.